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Thirty People Attend “Guerilla Unconference”

Finishing as a runner-up in the official voting didn’t deter Heather Billings and Michelle Minkoff: They held their session on Django regardless.

You have decided! We received more than 170 votes and now the winners have been crowned. Here are the three sessions who will be hosted tomorrow: 10:15 Embedded Content is the new Distribution Model with Art Gibson of Embed.ly 11:30 Smart ways to use dumb phones with Jim Colgan 3:30 We have a Tumblr! Now what? With Mark of Tumblr and Phoebe of Yahoo Runners-up: How to tango with Django The New Newsroom: The news in real time Thanks to all the voters and the awesome folks who submitted smart, inventive pitches. Give yourselves a hand! Sessions will be held Saturday in the Vineyard Room on the third floor. See you there!

You have decided!

We received more than 170 votes and now the winners have been crowned. Here are the three sessions who will be hosted tomorrow:

10:15 Embedded Content is the new Distribution Model with Art Gibson of Embed.ly

11:30 Smart ways to use dumb phones with Jim Colgan

3:30 We have a Tumblr! Now what? With Mark of Tumblr and Phoebe of Yahoo

Runners-up:

How to tango with Django

The New Newsroom: The news in real time

Thanks to all the voters and the awesome folks who submitted smart, inventive pitches. Give yourselves a hand!

Sessions will be held Saturday in the Vineyard Room on the third floor. See you there!

It’s not the medium, it’s the message

We used to tell them that it was ok, we weren’t throwing the baby out with the bathwater when we were going online. We’d keep holding the principles and ethics near and dear. But, if we look at ourselves honestly, was it the Internet that killed our business, or was it the people using the Internet to send the news industry a message about they way things have been done for the past half century? When trust is our business and trust in our products is stuck in the low twentieth percentile, are we ready to look at ourselves in the mirror and say honestly and loud enough for everyone else to hear, “We’ve got a problem, our products are crappy and we are hurting the people we’re supposed to help. And it doesn’t matter if it is on paper, tv, a computer, phone or tablet — our content isn’t king, it’s a pack of jokers.” If we want to reverse the trend, we have to change our ways, not just change our medium.

David Johnson is a professor of multimedia journalism and film and media arts at American University’s School of Communication.

So you want to change your life? Find out how you can actually get paid to study at Harvard University while gaining the skills and knowledge needed to excel in your career. Join us to learn how you can apply to become a Nieman Fellow and spend a year digging deep into the subjects that interest you most, sharing ideas about your work and journalism with peers from around the world and tapping into the many resources and experts at Harvard. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime —- and you’ll never be the same. The Nieman Foundation is best known as home to the Nieman Fellows, a group of journalists from around the world who come to Harvard for a year of study. It is considered the most prestigious fellowship program for journalists; Nieman Fellows have collectively won 99 Pulitzer Prizes.

So you want to change your life?

Find out how you can actually get paid to study at Harvard University while gaining the skills and knowledge needed to excel in your career. Join us to learn how you can apply to become a Nieman Fellow and spend a year digging deep into the subjects that interest you most, sharing ideas about your work and journalism with peers from around the world and tapping into the many resources and experts at Harvard. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime —- and you’ll never be the same.

The Nieman Foundation is best known as home to the Nieman Fellows, a group of journalists from around the world who come to Harvard for a year of study. It is considered the most prestigious fellowship program for journalists; Nieman Fellows have collectively won 99 Pulitzer Prizes.

The New Newsroom: News in Real Time News events have always unfolded in real-time. But until recently, the cycle for delivering the news has been limited by the medium. A newspaper was printed once a day, maybe twice if you had an afternoon edition. With the advent of the web, multiple updates a day were suddenly possible. And now, with up-to-the-second information available about what’s happening in the world (Twitter) and what’s happening on your site (Chartbeat), the news cycle has become as real-time as the events being covered.  Let’s get together and discuss how the nature of real-time information has changed the way you gather news, present it, and adapt it for your audience. How are you keeping up with the flow of information? What data about your site are worth paying attention to? How is your newsroom adapting to the real-time news environment? Tony Haile and Dawn Williamson spent a combined 10 years in newsrooms and are now working at Chartbeat, where they’re dedicated to building real-time tools (like Newsbeat). They’re excited to share how the newsrooms they’ve encountered deal with real-time data.

The New Newsroom: News in Real Time

News events have always unfolded in real-time. But until recently, the cycle for delivering the news has been limited by the medium. A newspaper was printed once a day, maybe twice if you had an afternoon edition. With the advent of the web, multiple updates a day were suddenly possible. And now, with up-to-the-second information available about what’s happening in the world (Twitter) and what’s happening on your site (Chartbeat), the news cycle has become as real-time as the events being covered. 

Let’s get together and discuss how the nature of real-time information has changed the way you gather news, present it, and adapt it for your audience. How are you keeping up with the flow of information? What data about your site are worth paying attention to? How is your newsroom adapting to the real-time news environment?

Tony Haile and Dawn Williamson spent a combined 10 years in newsrooms and are now working at Chartbeat, where they’re dedicated to building real-time tools (like Newsbeat). They’re excited to share how the newsrooms they’ve encountered deal with real-time data.

University of Self-Learners: what to do after ONA11 Let’s be real, j-school doesn’t teach you everything. The other 362 days outside ONA Conferences, we’re all still learning and consciously teaching ourselves. It’s fun. It’s necessary. And it’s pretty darn hard sometimes. So what to do when you hit a brick wall? How do you learn on your own? What are you going to do after you get home from ONA11 and have to teach yourself everything you still don’t know? Shannon McFarland grew up self-taught. She was homeschooled, then started college at 17 to write for the student newspaper. She’s not an expert, founder or a CEO of anything. She’s a grad student in public affairs reporting at the University of Illinois at Springfield. And she wants to learn everything. Photo of eager student via the Knight Foundation.

University of Self-Learners: what to do after ONA11

Let’s be real, j-school doesn’t teach you everything. The other 362 days outside ONA Conferences, we’re all still learning and consciously teaching ourselves. It’s fun. It’s necessary. And it’s pretty darn hard sometimes. So what to do when you hit a brick wall? How do you learn on your own? What are you going to do after you get home from ONA11 and have to teach yourself everything you still don’t know?

Shannon McFarland grew up self-taught. She was homeschooled, then started college at 17 to write for the student newspaper. She’s not an expert, founder or a CEO of anything. She’s a grad student in public affairs reporting at the University of Illinois at Springfield. And she wants to learn everything.

Photo of eager student via the Knight Foundation.

Principia Mathematica Journalistica I can’t count how many times I’ve heard “Oh, I’m not a numbers person” or “I don’t like math — that’s why I’m a journalist.” Unfortunately, I used to agree with that sentiment, but for the past few years it’s annoyed the heck out of me. Let’s gather some folks of various backgrounds and inclinations (or disinclinations) toward math and compile a list of the most important concepts and skills with the aim of increasing journalistic numeracy. Greg Linch didn’t like math in grade school (except sometimes). Now he kicks himself and wants to learn more practical and applied math concepts. His partner in crime for this session is Daniel Bachhuber, who owned his AP calc test, but doesn’t do math anymore. Photo via Images_of_Money on Flickr.

Principia Mathematica Journalistica

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard “Oh, I’m not a numbers person” or “I don’t like math — that’s why I’m a journalist.” Unfortunately, I used to agree with that sentiment, but for the past few years it’s annoyed the heck out of me.

Let’s gather some folks of various backgrounds and inclinations (or disinclinations) toward math and compile a list of the most important concepts and skills with the aim of increasing journalistic numeracy.

Greg Linch didn’t like math in grade school (except sometimes). Now he kicks himself and wants to learn more practical and applied math concepts.

His partner in crime for this session is Daniel Bachhuber, who owned his AP calc test, but doesn’t do math anymore.

Photo via Images_of_Money on Flickr.